CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS Sept. 15, 2011 – Updated 5:49 p.m. Reid’s Disaster Aid Package Passes Senate By Niels Lesniewski, CQ Staff A spending package for disaster relief narrowly won Senate passage Thursday, after overcoming objections that had delayed action on it earlier in the week. The Senate adopted, 62-37, Majority Leader…
Flood Map Coalition Revived ASFPM and the National Association of Realtors organized a meeting in Washington D.C. to discuss bringing back the former Flood Map Coalition. The group agreed that due to challenges to future mapping priorities, and to securing adequate funding, the Flood Map Coalition should be revived. The original map coalition, in existence…
On January 11th, the National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee (NCADAC), the federal advisory committee for the National Climate Assessment, approved their draft of the Third National Climate Assessment Report and released the draft for public comment. The draft report is available for download – both as a single document and by chapter –…